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by Cecilia Farren, Director of GASP Read more

GASP ideas for developing the 2010 No Smoking Day theme of ‘Breakfree’. Plus additional ideas for chains, chain gangs, hands, ‘We can Help’, and number ten appearing in day and year: 10/3/10. Read more

Extract from GASP leaflet 'Joking about Smoking' Read more

Extract from GASP leaflet 'Tobacco is deadly in all its forms' Read more

Extract from the leaflet What’s in tobacco smoke? Read more

A short article detailing all the new products we have in cluded in this years 30th anniversary catalogue Read more

GASP’s 12 Days of Christmas Seasonal Offers 3 different orders for the 2009 festive season Read more

It is a ‘Great Challenge’ for No Smoking Day Challenge local organisers whose job it is to reach those groups where smoking is at its highest levels and offer help to smokers to stop smoking.   

Here are some suggestions for reaching disadvantaged groups with the Great No Smoking Day Challenge including some good practice case studies.
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It is a ‘Great Challenge’ for No Smoking Day Challenge local organisers whose job it is to reach those groups where smoking is at its highest levels and offer help to smokers to stop smoking.   

Here are some suggestions for reaching disadvantaged groups with the Great No Smoking Day Challenge including some good practice case studies.
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It is a ‘Great Challenge’ for No Smoking Day Challenge local organisers whose job it is to reach those groups where smoking is at its highest levels and offer help to smokers to stop smoking.   

Here are some suggestions for reaching disadvantaged groups with the Great No Smoking Day Challenge including some good practice case studies.
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Second hand smoke is the name for the sickening, poisonous smoke given off by burning tobacco. Read more

Tobacco is a killer, on a monumental scale. Globally, around 5 million people die every year from diseases caused by smoking. That's a death every 7 seconds. Read more

Are you pregnant or planning to get pregnant? If you quit smoking now, you can improve your health and protect your baby. Here are 50 reasons good reasons why you should be smoke free during pregnancy. Read more

Stopping smoking is a big step. It takes hard work and determination. If you've tried you know just how hard it can be. Nicotine is a very addictive drug. Some people take two, three, four or more tries before they stop smoking. Each time you try to stop smoking you can learn what steps help and what steps hinder. Read more

Cigarettes are made from tobacco leaves grown with pesticides and fertilizers. The leaves are dried in wood burning ovens using millions of hectares of forest. Then tobacco is treated with additives. Read more

Before you quit smoking, keep this action plan with your cigarettes. Read one or two sections whenever you light up. Read more

A useful fact sheet for users of our Fat Furred Artery demonstration kit Read more

Many smokers believe that roll-your-own or RYO cigarettes are not as harmful as manufactured cigarettes

But hand-rolling tobacco is as just as harmful as the tobacco in manufactured cigarettes.  Research using roll-up cigarettes made by smokers, shows that the levels of nicotine and cancer-causing chemicals inhaled are often higher than those from bought cigarettes.  RYO cigarettes are more likely to cause mouth, throat and lung cancer as well as lung diseases such as emphysema and heart disease.
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Are you pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant? 
Then you’ll want to do the best to make sure your baby is healthy.  Stopping smoking will make you feel better and it will give your baby the best start in life.
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Why you should stop smoking before surgery and stop tips for pre-op smokers Read more

Measuring breath carbon monoxide as part of any stop smoking programme is an effective way of motivating patients and charting their progress. Save your service money by trading-in any old CO monitor for a brand new Micro+ or piCO+ Smokerlyzer®. Read more

A selection of useful links to training videos, data sheets, literature, clinical papers and software. Read more

Validation of Self-Reported Smoking Status Using Saliva Cotinine: A Rapid Semiquantitative Dipstick Method Read more

Tar is a term that describes a collection of solid particles that smokers inhale when they light a cigarette. It is a mixture of lots of chemicals, many of which can cause cancer.

Here is a fact sheet relating to our Tar in a Jar

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A short step by step guide on how to use the April Age Progression software.
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Smoking harms your ability to live life to the full – to be fit and physically active.  Smoking affects lung fitness, muscle strength and sleep patterns.  Smokers are less able to take part in sport at all levels from international athletes to amateurs.  Smoking makes it more difficult to live a normal, active daily life – activities such as climbing stairs or running for the bus.

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GASP Director, Cecilia Farren visits the United States Read more

There are many toxic chemicals in Tobacco smoke, but where do they come from? Read more

Here you can find all the data you need for the New Lunglife Read more

Here you can find a brief look at tobacco use and how it affects people worldwide.

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Roger Black shows his support for GASP's Toxins in Tobacco stand at the recent UKNSCC Read more

To help No Smoking Day organisers take on the challenge of running great No Smoking Day stalls to attract maximum interest from the public and the media. Read more

To help No Smoking Day organisers take on the challenge of running great No Smoking Day stalls to attract maximum interest from the public and the media. Read more

"I started smoking at university," confesses Cecilia Farren, founder of GASP, a highly successful mail order company stocking everything and anything connected with stopping - or not starting - smoking. "I never gave a thought to the health risks, even though my first job was researching lung diseases." Read more

GASP round up of 2008 and introduction to new products for 2009 Read more

Opportunistic stop smoking advice is when a health professional spends a few minutes encouraging smokers to quit. With the help of a Smokerlyzer, Tar Jar, and some leaflets, stop smoking advisors can recruit smokers using a 'Shopportunistic' approach. Read more